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The Lady Or The Tiger, By Frank R. Stockton
Can you imagine getting to marry one of the fairest lady's of the land or get killed by a tiger,when it all relies on which door you pick? Could you take the pressure? That situation occurs in the story "The lady or the Tiger" by Frank R. Stockton. In the very olden times, there lived a semi-barbaric King, which his daughter had an affair and causes the youth to choose a door for his new wife or get eaten by a tiger. “The arena of the king...with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.”(. )The main characters in the story are, the youth (the one who chooses life or death), the princess and the King. …show more content…
The princess was devious. Her attitude was very uncivilized. The narrator says, "Not only did she know in which room stood the lady ready to emerge;" "she knew who it was ,and she hated her"(364). Once she figured out who it was, her hatred towards her made her not want to send the youth to the door with the Lady. The princess stated that she could not stand to see her lover with the lady behind the door. That shows that she had pure hatred towards her. In addition to her hatred towards the princess, her jealousy became stronger throughout the
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